# Sophie Bower-Straziota

> Sophie Bower-Straziota is a private equity investor at Vitruvian Partners backing Travel. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Vitruvian Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vitruvian-partners)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-bower-straziota-49b5b820/

Sophie Bower-Straziota is a private equity investor at Vitruvian Partners in London focused on Travel and Machine Learning. Prior to joining the firm in 2012, Sophie was an Associate at BC Partners in London, where she was responsible for the analysis, execution and monitoring of investments across the Business and Financial services, Consumer and Leisure sectors. Her track record at Vitruvian includes the acquisition of Inenco, and the buyout of RL360.PreviouslySophie worked at McKinsey in London where she worked on a number of engagements for government, corporate and private equity clients across the UK. Sophie has a Masters degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 2 | 22% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |
| SaaS | 1 | 11% |
| Leisure | 1 | 11% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 2 | 22% |
| Series E | 1 | 11% |
| Series F | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 11% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 33% |
| Spain | 1 | 11% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AlphaSense | AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that allows professionals to make critical decisions with confidence and speed. The company has nearly 2,000 enterprise clients, including financial institutions that use the platform to inform their business decisions. AlphaSense is trusted by over 1,800 enterprise customers, including a majority of theS&P 500. | $350M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 03, 2026 |  |
| Civitatis | Civitatis is a distribution platform of Spanish-speaking activities, day trips and guided tours all over the world.Civitatis.com, with over 4,500 activities in more than 300 destinations worldwide, was established by Alberto Gutiérrez, a young 35-year old entrepreneur who combined his traveling experiences and his passion for internet and createda successful model. Passionate, ambitious and extremely focused on providing its customers with the best experiences, since its founding in 2008, Civitatis has grown and now has over 900,000 satisfied customers in 2017. | $49.9M | Private Equity | Jun 26, 2024 |  |
| ObjectiveHealth | ObjectiveGI is a operator of an integrated research and technology services platform intended to improve patient outcomes through partnerships with leading physicians.The company's model seamlessly integrates gastroenterology (GI) research services into local community-based GI practices in support of patient care and practice enhancement,offering research infrastructure, optimal trial selection, study implementation and key research personnel management, thereby providing patients affected by NonAlcoholic SteatoHepatitis (NASH) with improved and better outcomes. |  | Private Equity | Jan 26, 2024 |  |
| Civitatis | Civitatis is a distribution platform of Spanish-speaking activities, day trips and guided tours all over the world.Civitatis.com, with over 4,500 activities in more than 300 destinations worldwide, was established by Alberto Gutiérrez, a young 35-year old entrepreneur who combined his traveling experiences and his passion for internet and createda successful model. Passionate, ambitious and extremely focused on providing its customers with the best experiences, since its founding in 2008, Civitatis has grown and now has over 900,000 satisfied customers in 2017. | $109.1M | Private Equity | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Azul Systems | Azul Systems, the industry’s only company exclusively focused on Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), builds fully supported, certified standards-compliant Java runtime solutions that bring the power of Java to the enterprise, cloud, and embedded/IoT. Zing is a JVM designed for a wide variety of enterprise Java applications and workloadsthat may require any combination of low latency, high transaction rates, large working memory, improved query performance and/or consistent response times. Zulu is Azul’s family of certified, freely available open source builds of OpenJDK with a variety of flexible commercial support options, available in configurations for ISVs, enterprises, and on-premise or Cloud deployments, as well as custom and embedded/IoT devices. For additional information, visit www.azul.com. |  |  | Mar 04, 2020 |  |
| Azul Systems | Azul Systems, the industry’s only company exclusively focused on Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), builds fully supported, certified standards-compliant Java runtime solutions that bring the power of Java to the enterprise, cloud, and embedded/IoT. Zing is a JVM designed for a wide variety of enterprise Java applications and workloadsthat may require any combination of low latency, high transaction rates, large working memory, improved query performance and/or consistent response times. Zulu is Azul’s family of certified, freely available open source builds of OpenJDK with a variety of flexible commercial support options, available in configurations for ISVs, enterprises, and on-premise or Cloud deployments, as well as custom and embedded/IoT devices. For additional information, visit www.azul.com. | $340M | Post-IPO Equity | Mar 04, 2020 |  |
| Darktrace | Darktrace's self-learning AI is modeled on the human immune system and used by over 3,500 organizations to protect against threats to the cloud, email, IoT, networks, and industrial systems. This includes insider threat, industrial espionage, IoT compromises, zero-day malware, data loss, supply chain risk, and long-term infrastructurevulnerabilities.Darktrace has over 1,200 employees, 44 offices and headquarters in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK. Every 3 seconds, Darktrace AI fights back against a cyber-threat, preventing it from causing damage. | $50M | Series E | Sep 26, 2018 |  |
| Darktrace | Darktrace's self-learning AI is modeled on the human immune system and used by over 3,500 organizations to protect against threats to the cloud, email, IoT, networks, and industrial systems. This includes insider threat, industrial espionage, IoT compromises, zero-day malware, data loss, supply chain risk, and long-term infrastructurevulnerabilities.Darktrace has over 1,200 employees, 44 offices and headquarters in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK. Every 3 seconds, Darktrace AI fights back against a cyber-threat, preventing it from causing damage. |  | Secondary Market |  |  |
| Klook | Klook is a developer of travel activities and services booking platform designed to connect travelers with experiences. With Klook’s innovative technologies, travelers can book on-the-go and redeem the services by using QR code-enabled e-vouchers. Each day, Klook empowers countless travelers to indulge in their wanderlust and spontaneity throughover 100,000 offerings in more than 400 destinations.The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Hong Kong. | $100M | Series F |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [J.P. Morgan Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-p-morgan-asset-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lead Edge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lead-edge-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accenture Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accenture-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [D. E. Shaw & Co.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d-e-shaw-co) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Goldman Sachs Alternatives](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goldman-sachs-alternatives) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CapitalG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Vitruvian Partners

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Vitruvian Partners is an equity firm that specializes in middle-market buyouts, growth buyouts, and growth capital investments. Independent private equity firm that specialises in middle-market buyouts, growth buyouts and growth capital investments in the UK and elsewhere. The company backs exceptional management teams in businesses where thereis a major opportunity to create strategic value. They seek out companies where this opportunity exists through change or “Dynamic Situations”.

5 contacts available at Vitruvian Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amit Tiwari | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-tiwari-deec |
| Jussi Wuoristo | Partner, Member of Founding Team | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jussi-wuoristo |
| Mike Risman | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-risman |
| Sophie Bower-Straziota | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sophie-bower |
| Stephen Byrne | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephen-byrne |

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## FAQ

### What does Sophie Bower-Straziota invest in?

Sophie Bower-Straziota invests primarily in Travel, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Private Equity and Series E stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Sophie Bower-Straziota last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sophie Bower-Straziota closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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